Pencil, penholder, and like article.



No. 897,530. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 190a, T. P. HANDLY. v PENCIL, PBNHOLDER, AND LIKE ARTICLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13,1906.

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PENCIL, PENHOLDER, AND LIKE ARTICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed June 18, 1906. Serial No. 821,688.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'lnoMAs F. HANDLY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Penns lvania, have invented certain new and use ul Improvements in Pencils, Pcnholders, and Like Articles, of which the. following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to pencils, penholders, and like articles, and its object is to provide means for deterring the users of pencils from placing them in the mouth or against the ton e.

The danger oflransmitting a disease from one person to another through the habit of wetting the point of a pencil by placing it in the mouth, is well known, and the present invention aims to avoid this danger, and to prevent the contracting of the habit, particularly by children, of placmg' pencils in the mouth.

My invention consists in. providing, as a new article of manufacture, a pencil or like instrument having a face secured thereto, said face completing the normal configuration of the instrument and being a deterrent.

My invention further consists in the improved construction hereinafter fully described, illustrated drawings, and particularly pointed out in the ap nded claims.

n the drawings, in which similarreference characters indicate similar parts in each of the views: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lead pencil embodyi my invention, the view showing one of the sides of a polygonally-sided pencil provided with a deterrent face, Fig. 2 1s a. transverse sectional view of 3, Fig. 5 is a perspective view show the same, Fi 3 is a side elevation of a modified form, e view showingthe deterrent face as of less width than the width of one of the sides of the pencil. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the construction shown in pen-holder having a deterrent face ap ilfiad ongitudinally thereof. 1 designates a pencil of polygonal form in cross section, havi 7 one of 1ts sides provided with a face or I referably employ a compound made from bitter herbs and water, but any harmless substance, compound or mixture having a in the accompanying acing portion 2 formed' of a deterrent substance of a. harmless nature.

bitter, acrid, or otherwise offensive taste, may be em loyed in forming the face 2". The face or the pencil in any suitable manner, as by providi a groove 3 on one of the sides of the penci or, as shown in Fig. 5 along the exposed surface ofa pen-holder which is circular in cross section, within which roove the deterrent is placed, said deterrent having its ex osed surface substantially in the normal p one of the surface of the pencil, thereby completing the normal configuration of the pencil. Or, the face 2 ma he provided by making one of the sides of t 6 pencil of a sufficiently greater width to cause the face-or facing portion, when applied to such side, complete the normal configuration of the pencil, the face, in such latter case, having an exposed surface extendin on adjacent sides of the pencil. The face in Figs. 3 and 4. is designated as 2", and in Fig. 5 as :2. The word face as used herein, is intended to apply to the deterrent portion as contradistinguished from the sides or other surface of the cncil or other implement which may be useif. And in this respect it is to be understood that the tcrm face will apply to the exposed deterrent whether the exposed portion is of the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or ofthe form shown in F' s. 3, 4 and 5, that is to so. whether or not t 1e ex osed surface is equa to or less than the widt i of any side of a polygonal pencil or less than the exposed surface of the pencil which is round in cross section, theterm indicating an exposed surface of a material which is different from the material of the encil casing or pen-holder, and by reason of such distinguishing charac-- teristic providing on the pencil a complete exposed surface or face of the deterrent ma terial. I

In each of the forms shown, a sharpi-ming of the pencil will not affect the rescnce of a.

acing portion may be secured to.

portion which will act to deter t is placing of ncil within the mouth of the user.

ile I have shown and described several forms in which the pencil or other instrument may he provided with a deterrent which is exposed substantially on the plane of the surface of the pencil, it will he understood that I have not pointed out all the ways in which the such structure may be provided, and I reserve the right to make any and all such modifications thereof as may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention, as expressed in the armompanying claims.

Having thus deserihed my invention what .l elaimas new, is: i

1. As a new article of imlnufaeture a pencil or like instrument having a face secured thereto, said face completing the normal eonliguration of the instrument and living a. detorrent.

2. As a. new article of manul'aeture, a pencil or like instrument having a fare secured thereto, said face completing the normal configuration of' the instrument. and being a deterrent, said face extending and being exposed throughout the length of the instrument.

3. A pencil, pen-holder or like article formed with an external longitudinal groove containing a deterrent substance or compound.

In testimony whereof I a'ilix in y signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS l4, IIANDLY.

\Vitnesses:

MAX ll. Snonovi'rz, E. E. Po'r'rnnu 

